Today’s episode is all about books and reading! I talk book podcasts and tell you about a great book list app. I also recommend the seven best fiction books and one best nonfiction book I’ve read so far in 2021.   My new favorite book podcasts, which I also support on Patreon to get the extra podcast content, are:   Sarah's Bookshelves Live   From the Front Porch podcast (from a bookstore called The Bookshelf in Thomasville, Georgia)   The Currently Reading Podcast (Love their Indie Press list Patreon partnership with Fabled Bookshop & Cafe in Waco, Texas)   I’m also a huge fan of the Book of the Month Club.   The app I use to track my books: Reading List   The best books I’ve read so far in 2021: The Dry by Jane Harper The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James Sea Wife by Amity Gage Writers and Lovers by Lily King When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins   Nonfiction: The Premonition by Michael Lewis   A disappointing book of 2021: Survive the Night by Riley Sager   Worst book I’ve read so far in 2021: The Whispering House by Elizabeth Brooks   My most anticipated books for the second half of 2021: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby Falling by T.J. Newman False Witness by Karin Slaughter   A few more books that are getting great reviews this year:   Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston The Guncle by Steven Rowley Seven Days in June by Tia Williams   If you love the following authors, here are new books coming out this fall:   Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune Oh William! By Elizabeth Strout Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander series) by Diana Gabaldon Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult     Biz Bite: Reattach to Work Each Morning   Learn more by clicking on habit #19 here: https://www.developgoodhabits.com/productivity-hacks/   Related study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0149206319829823   More resources:   Subscribe to the Deliberate Freelancer newsletter.   Episode #51 of Deliberate Freelancer: Reading and Book Recommendations during Coronavirus   Episode #87 of Deliberate Freelancer: My Most Anticipated 2021 Books (and Fave 2020 Books)